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				<h1>Using clefs, time signatures, and key signatures</h1>
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				<div summary="How to add a clef" id="taskbox">
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						<strong>To add or change a clef:</strong>
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							<li>Move your mouse over an existing clef.  It will turn red.</li>
							<li>If the desired measure doesn't have a clef, move your mouse over the left side of the desired measure.  A small caret with a picture of a clef will appear.</li>
							<li>Click the mouse button to add the clef shown or to toggle the existing clef.</li>
							<li>If you toggle the clef on a measure after the first measure so that it matches the previous clef, it will disappear.</li>
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				<div summary="How to add or change a time signature" id="taskbox">
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						<strong>To add or change a time signature:</strong>
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							<li>Move your mouse over an existing time signature, which will turn red.</li>
							<li>If the desired measure doesn't have a time signature, move your mouse over the left side of the measure.  A small caret with a picture of a time signature will appear.</li>
							<li>Click the mouse button to bring up the time signature editing panel.</li>
							<li>Change the time signature by typing in the top box or using the up/down arrows, and by selecting a number from the bottom box.</li>
							<li>Click the "X" button to close the time signature editing panel.</li>
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				<div summary="How to delete a time signature" id="taskbox">
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						<strong>To delete a time signature:</strong>
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							<li>Move your mouse over an existing time signature, which will turn red.</li>
							<li>Press the DELETE key to delete the time signature.</li>
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						<p>The time signature in the first measure of a song can not be deleted.</p>
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						<strong>To add a compound time signature:</strong>
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						<li>Open the time signature editing panel as described above.</li>
						<li>Click the "+" button to change the time signature to a compound time signature.</li>
						<li>Edit the second part of the time signature in the same way as the first.</li>
						<li>To make a compound time signature back into a simple time signature, click the "-" button.</li>
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				<div summary="How to add or change a key signature" id="taskbox">
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						<strong>To add or change a key signature:</strong>
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							<li>Move your mouse over an existing key signature, which will turn red.</li>
							<li>If the desired measure doesn't have a key signature, move your mouse over the left side of the measure.  A small caret with a picture of a sharp and flat symbol will appear.</li>
							<li>Click the mouse button to bring up the key signature editing panel.</li>
							<li>Change the key signature by selecting a pitch from the first box, and major/minor from the second box.</li>
							<li>Click the "X" button to close the key signature editing panel.</li>
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				<div summary="How to delete a key signature" id="taskbox">
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						<strong>To delete a key signature:</strong>
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							<li>Move your mouse over an existing key signature, which will turn red.</li>
							<li>Press the DELETE key to delete the key signature.</li>
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						<p>Deleting the key signature in the first measure will change the key to C major.</p>
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				<h2 class="seealso">See also</h2>
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					<a href="help:topic_list=structure bookID=Senor Staff Help template=css/genlist.html stylesheet=css/genlist_style.css Other=Changing song structure">Changing song structure</a>
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